General Gardening Discussion

Great time of year, almost everyday something diffrent to look at and admire. Of course its enough for any man. I do believe our GC naughty word catcher is at work earlier I tried to mention Ar**nal footy team and the first 4 letters were missing now your sp*rc* is well and correctly noticed.

I found this aerial pic from 2001 .... no wonder it takes me over two hours to cut the grass

Thanks for the reminder the little gardening shop I used to get shallot sets from has closed ( building luxury retirement apartments on the site". This year will plant saved shallots and maybe go with seed next year.

Picked some up paperwhites from wilko, 3 for £4 and they're poking through already. Did see some in tesco/asda for £8/£10.. The amaryllis has shot up and got a bud, I'm so happy last one was just leaf!

thanks wg but i tried to sign up with live video and clicked on the picture i wanted in my pictures, but afterwards there was no where to click on to log in after i had given my details

They are all winterflowering and highly scented.:flwsml:

If they live a fair way away and you aren't going to take whatever you want to give them, the cost of carriage of a plant is quite expensive in relation to it's value and they might not like it anyway! An option is to play safe and give them garden centre tokens.

Has anyone got any spare plants , the one seed I wanted to sow for summer and forgot.Silly meToo late now.Want to make a hanging ball basket with them

All soil can be improved Paterson but most soils are just fine. Can you show us a pic of your soil - a general view and a spadeful - and we'll tell you what you've got and how you might improve it.

Hi crowleyi started mine off last yr the beginning of feb as i could'nt wait any longer :Di have a conservatory so i sowed them in a black pot (absorbes heat) placed cling film over them and put them in the window with the raidiator underneath they took 5 days to come through and i had...

Hello and welcome to the forum. If barley could defeat dock leaves and other weeds, I don't think there'd be much of a herbicide industry because it wouldn't be commercially viable for companies like Monsanto to just develop for the casual home gardener. If you want to grow a competitive...

Cheers Verdun, I'll do that as soon as all the bulbs show

I like my garland super 7 as I have 7 diffrent pots so can grow different things in the same propogator and control them all individually

Hi Snowflake I think foxgloves are biennials, so they don't flower until the year after they were sown - is it possible that although the non-flowering one is bigger, it's a first year plant and the other two are second year ones (but maybe a smaller growing variety?) other than that i'd have...

Hi Chris.When I did my old garden the grass area was about 20x5m. I gave it a couple of treatments of round up, then after a couple of weeks I rotavated it and raked all the junk and stones out. I then rolled it and sowed the grass seed. I then gave it a light raking and that was it. I did...

Just cut the shrub back only to half way. Feel the other branches for a hallow/dead sound and remove those. I still have some pruning myself to do with my 14 varieties and also see green on the lower levels. Some of my hydrangeas are 20 feet tall some are the typical 5 foot and some are the...

Ivy roots just about everywhere so I'd say yes. I've just taken a few cuttings and stuffed them straight in the ground in the hope that will work too!

thanks for the advice, always welcome as i'm only a novice!

I'd dig some holes, improve the soil with organic matter and plant Vinca minor. There are several cultivars with white, blue or purple flowers, some with double flowers, some with variegated leaves. If you're prepared to give them a splash of water to get them established, and from time to time...

The world record is over 2000lb mate and getting bigger every year